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Ukraine has the highest per capita consumption of natural gas of any European country.

So a few people (doesn't say how many people really attended this thing) get together OUTSIDE Ukraine to say stuff that we already know.

That EVERYONE already knows.

That Ukraine's economy is in crisis, like elsewhere in the world.

Including what's already been said INSIDE Ukraine - that all of the "political forces" need to get together to deal with the economic crisis.

That the IMF won't lend any more money, because Ukraine didn't do what it was supposed to do.

Is anyone in Ukraine listening?

Is Yushchenko/Baloha listening?

Is Tymoshenko, are her oligarchs listening?

Is Yanukovych, are his oligarchs listening?

The oligarchs are too used to the "Ukrainian third way," and the Kuchma "multi-vector" games, which put lots of money - Western money - in their pockets.

This is different.

If Ukraine's "political forces" (read - oligarch clans, because Ukraine really does not have any political parties) think that this is another opportunity to put money in their pockets, at the expense of the West, and at the expense of the Ukrainian people - think again.

They are either going to put Ukraine truly into the toilet, if they continue bickering.

And even their own diamond watches and Mercedes and BMW's are going to be put in peril, if they continue bickering.